We need to reach that happy stage of our development when differences and diversity are not seen as sources of division and distrust, but of strength and inspiration.

I hardly remember how I started to write poetry. It's hard to imagine what I thought poetry could do.

David Antin

I am glad that I paid so little attention to good advice had I abided by it I might have been saved from some of my most valuable mistakes.

Edna St. Vincent Millay

There is great food in Vegas.

Eric Ripert

Ninety percent of the things we tend to WORRY about we have no control over, so why worry about them?

Source Unknown

The underdog often starts the fight, and occasionally the upper dog deserves to win.

Edward W. Howe

A fair request should be followed by the deed in silence.

Dante Alighieri

Every time I have some moment on a seashore, or in the mountains, or sometimes in a quiet forest, I think this is why the environment has to be preserved.

Bill Bradley

Anti-Catholicism is the anti-Semitism of the intellectual.

Patrick J. Buchanan

Three things give us hardy strength: sleeping on hairy mattresses, breathing cold air, and eating dry food.

Proverb

Life is extraordinarily suave and sweet with certain natural, witty, affectionate people who have unusual distinction and are capable of every vice, but who make a display of none in public and about whom no one can affirm they have a single one. There is something supple and secret about them. Besides, their perversity gives spice to their most innocent occupations, such as taking a walk in the garden at night.

Marcel Proust

Love is the strange bewilderment that overtakes one person on account of another person.

James Thurber

The chief element in the art of statesmanship under modern conditions is the ability to elucidate the confused and clamorous interests which converge upon the seat of government. It is an ability to penetrate from the na?ve self-interest of each group to its permanent and real interest. Statesmanship consists in giving the people not what they want but what they will learn to want.

Walter Lippmann